When I was teaching, I read the novel “Number the Stars” with my students. One of the task we did in class was to rewrite the last few lines of each of the chapters onto one page and discuss what we found. We made conclusions that were eye-opening. The author used cliffhangers as a way […]
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Authors have a secret writing tool that keeps audience brains active while reading their stories. When an author shows us something that we can’t see nor directly stated, or when “stories tell us something without appearing to tell us readers that thought…that’s writing with invisible ink. Invisible ink keeps the audience’s brain active.” ~Ursula LeGuin,
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How can we choose to improve our writing voice? I know when I was teaching writing to my students, voice was one of the hardest writing traits to teach and learn. Over the years, I studied and read as many teaching resources I could find on how to teach voice. Until one day, while attending
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